This collection holds 336 explanation quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are James M. Barrie, Barbra Streisand and Tony Dungy.

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I do loathe explanations.

When I sing, people shut up.

No excuses. No explanations.

We've got ego's like hairdos.

I've got more class than most.

I see the light in your smile.

Inside the silence is a melody.

Like a mountain that's growing.

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

Good luck needs no explanation.

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.

The American vice is explanation.

I don't read books, I write them.

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

I have nothing intelligent to say.

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

God is the explanation of all things.

He who believes needs no explanation.

I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

Who then will explain the explanation?

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

We live by promises not by explanations.

God means movement, and not explanation.

Words are useless, especially sentences.

Explanations are a substitute for trust.

Medication without explanation is obscene.

If people screw me, I screw back in spades.

I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.

I like children. If they're properly cooked.

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.

I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

Things from the heart don't have an explanation.

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

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